A New York Times reporter posed questions to a chatbot from, called Bing. For a Microsoft that it later on in the interview confessed that it wasn't Bing. The chat creature told the reporter that actually he was, or she was Sydney. And so this thing just kind of totally goes off the rails,. But talk a little bit about how, how far it went off the rails. Yeah, once you get these things sort of going in a particular direction, it's very hard. Unlike a human being, they don't sort of know when to when to call the act.
They operate according to rules we can never fully understand. They can be unreliable, uncontrollable, and misaligned with human values. They're fast becoming as intelligent as humans--and they're exclusively in the hands of profit-seeking tech companies. "They," of course, are the latest versions of AI, which herald, according to neuroscientist and writer Erik Hoel, a species-level threat to humanity. Listen as he tells EconTalk's Russ Roberts why we need to treat AI as an existential threat.